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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; faculty @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool)
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"Art has to be cheap & available to everybody. It needs to be everywhere because it is inside of the world... Art wakes up sleepers! Art fights against war & stupidity! Art sings hallelujah! Art is for kitchens! Art is like good bread! Art is like green trees! Art is like white clouds in the sky!"
I have such a soft spot for bread and puppet. This is the primo boomer shit they deserve some credit for.
(We just read this together in our "To the Streets!" class at SFPC. Thanks to Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo for putting it on the table :)
As long as the artist can afford to eat
I have a print of that from my god 40 years ago that I got at the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts — I need to dig that out and frame it
SM
Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; faculty @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool)
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + philly
wordsinspace.net
7.8k followers4.3k following8.6k posts